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CELSI, BRAGG & MAItLAND:THE ROAD TO GLASGOW

BY ANNY CELSI

NELSON BRAGG

& DUNCAN MAITLAND

2017

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Los Angeles pop-Americana artists Anny Celsi and Nelson Bragg team up with Dublin’s Duncan Maitland to form a high-energy, high-flying trio. It’s Brill Building hooks, Byrds-y harmonies, and Beatle-esque psychedelia!

Celsi’s style has been described as “beatnik cool,” “pop-noir,” and “slightlydelic pop jangle,” with comparisons to Suzanne Vega, Jackie DeShannon, and Chrissie Hynde.

While Bragg’s day job is percussionist-vocalist with The Brian Wilson Band, between tours he’s found time to release two critically acclaimed albums of his own Day Into Night and We Get What We Want.

Maitland has plied his 12-string with pop heroes Picturehouse, Pugwash, and XTC. His Lullabies For The 21st Century is “a trip through the acid-tinged English foothills of rainy day sunshine pop.”

Celsi, Bragg & Maitland: The Road To Glasgow is a celebration of their past and future adventures touring in the UK, with new songs from all three writers, previously unreleased covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Kelly, and Peter Holsapple, and a few choice tunes recorded live at Glasgow's Elba Sessions during their 2011 tour.

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the year we tried to kill the pain

BY bob woodruff

Bob Woodruff. Singer. Acclaimed Songwriter. All-American. His friends call him ‘Woody’. And much like another Woody of note, his songs are anachronistic yet accessible, melodic yet gritty, intimate yet universal. Initially, a mid 90’s country-rock success with critically-acclaimed releases, Dreams & Saturday Nights (1994, Elektra) and Desire Road (1997, Curb/Imprint), Woodruff played the rock star card and played it hard, singed a few rusty-edged life lessons into him and has now returned with a stunning comeback of new originals and a few classic 90’s Woodruff cuts revisited for a whole new generation to embrace.

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In 2013 I saw Kip Boardman and his great band blow the doors off of a dive on the Westside of L.A. with only 15 people watching. I asked Kip if he could replicate that set in a studio with this band. He did, lead vocals included. This record is what I heard on that amazing night in 2013. - Nelson Bragg

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BOARDMAN

BY KIP BOARDMAN

Raised in the northeast on a healthy diet of Jimmy Webb and Rolling Stones, and drawn by the warm California sun, Kip Boardman began messing with the piano when he was five or so, and much to everyone’s chagrin and disappointment, never really let it go. A longtime bass player with many Angeleno stalwarts, Kip has lately turned to the lonely art of songwriting and the more complementary piano and guitar. Mostly preoccupied with dusty and obsolete forms of country, folk and pop, Kip has released two previous solo albums, 2003’s Upon The Stars on Ridisculous Records and 2005’s Hello I Must Be on Mesmer Records.

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DAY INTO NIGHT10TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL

WE GET WHAT WE WANT

by nelson bragg

PERCUSSIONIST

VOCALIST

DRUMMER

SONGWRITER

2016 | 2012

Nelson Bragg has been Brian Wilson‘s percussionist/vocalist since 2003.

He also toured the world withThe Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Celebration, summer 2012.

Nelson Bragg is a veteran on the L.A. pop scene, Bragg has played/recorded with L.A. bands Stew and The Negro Problem, Seth Swirsky (The Red Button), The Quarter After, The Mockers, Wrecking Crew members Hal Blaine, Don Randi and Jerry Cole, and produced and toured with Anny Celsi among countless others. He also was in The Narada Michael Walden Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco's Davis Hall backing up Sting, Billy Joel and James Taylor among many others.

We Get What We Want is Nelson Bragg’s 2nd solo album following his 2006 debut Day Into Night.

The music on both albums is melodic, harmony-based folk/pop with 60’s and 70’s influence.

Nelson Bragg deserves to be heard. We Get What We Want has been received all over the world with high praise from listeners and the press alike. It is original. It is classic. It is pop songwriting lovingly produced for people avoiding TV-made rock stars and cookie cutter, auto-tuned formulas.